SUBCHAPTER IV
SAFEGUARD MEASURES PURSUANT TO THE AGREEMENT
ON AGRICULTURE AND ADDITIONAL IMPORT RESTRICTIONS
ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 22 OF THE
AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT, AS AMENDED
XXII
99-IV-1
U.S. Notes
1. This subchapter contains safeguard measures established pursuant to Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture (as approved by section 101 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act), which allows the imposition of additional duties based upon either the value or the quantity of goods imported into the United States for certain agricultural products. In addition, the subchapter contains provisions which may be proclaimed pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 624). All of the duties provided for in this subchapter are cumulative duties which apply in addition to the duties, if any, otherwise imposed in the tariff schedule on the goods described herein. Unless otherwise stated, the duties or limitations provided for in this subchapter apply until suspended or terminated. Goods of the following countries imported into the United States shall not be subject to any of the provisions, duties or limitations of this subchapter:
Canada, Mexico, Jordan, Singapore, Chile, Australia, Morocco, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Bahrain, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Peru, Oman, Korea, Colombia, Panama
2. The provisions imposing safeguard duties based upon value set forth in this subchapter shall apply to all goods described herein (other than sheep meat, which is not subject to safeguard duties based upon value) except during periods announced in the Federal Register by the Secretary of Agriculture in consultation with the United States Trade Representative as the effective periods of the provisions imposing safeguard duties based upon quantity with respect to such goods, during which period the safeguard duties based upon value shall be deemed suspended and only the safeguard duties based upon quantity shall apply to such goods. Unless the Secretary of Agriculture invokes safeguard duties based upon quantity for specified goods and so announces in the Federal Register (as provided in the first sentence of this note), the tariff provisions providing for such duties shall be deemed suspended and shall not apply to the goods described herein. No safeguard duties based upon quantity shall apply to goods en route on the basis of a contract settled before the effective date of such measures specified in a notice issued by the Secretary of Agriculture.
3. For the purposes of this subchapter, imports of peanuts in the shell shall be charged against the quantities in this note on the basis of 75 kilograms for each 100 kilograms of peanuts in the shell.

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